Today's charity is for you animal lovers, and one very dear to my heart: Puffy Paws Kitty Haven.Rick and Chris Kingston have dedicated their lives to running this nonprofit, no-kill, and - get this - cage free shelter. John & I visited them earlier this year, and never wanted to leave: it is a fantastically clean, warm, and friendly environment filled with over 200 happy cats.

Puffy Paws is in financial trouble, so every dollar given today will make a huge difference. Go directly to their site to donate yours through Paypal. For those of you who don't like Paypal, you can use the First Giving site we set up.

Note: John & I want to help revamp the Puffy Paws site. Any of you web designers out there have some free time to give? Send us an e-mail.

#3 isn't actually a professional wreck, right? That's a home job. Please tell me that's a home job. Made by a 3 year old. With no arms. (I particularly like how they just stuck Hershey's kisses in spots where they messed up. Chocolate fixes everything!)

Looking at that last one I can't help but wonder why they didn't just go the extra mile and slap a 25th cupcake down there on the bottom left and make it look ALMOST like a stocking. I suppose they couldn't afford to do that w/o dipping into their flotsom account though, huh?

I'm getting an error as well. However, if you go to their main site their Donate button works perfectly.

I also suggest using 1and1.com to update their site. It's really easy to use. They host preloaded templates. You simply pick out which template you want and type in your information (just like Word). Plus it's cheap. Hope that helps!

Decapitated reindeer heads. I'm remembering what Christmas is really all about....Actually, for some reason, the three Hershey kisses stuck to the side of the snowman are cracking me up. Afterthought? Or part of the grand design?

I can't get the Puffy Paws site to load (hope this is due to excessive giving).

This one can't be set up on the Firstgiving page? I dont have a Paypal account. I do not like paypal's terms and conditions and am boycotting them. Also I will not pay a 30% cut to them on my donation.

In keeping with the cat-related charity, I'd just like to ask if anyone else here thinks that the frosting bit of the scarf of the snowman looks like cat barf (or maybe doody). Maybe it's just me. *shrugs*

WV: Prettio"Let's add more flotsam to this cake and make it look REALLY prettio!"

Another good charity for today - I love cats! (Shhh don't tell my spoiled princess Jack Russell LOL) I donated $10 via paypal directly from the website, so you may add that to the daily total if you wish!

Poor snowman, he looks like he's on his way out ("I'm meltiiiinngg!!"). And the weight of the plastic junk stuck on him isn't helping!

Okay. I have to admit that the candy cane CCC (CCCCC =) ) isn't THAT bad. For a kindergarten holiday party, it would be a big hit. Anything else MIGHT be pushing it.

For the rest, I think that getting a 'Grand Award'--you know, imported from the country of Fragile--might be better than these tacky things. XD (Ooh, speaking of--I wonder if there's any 'leg lamp' cakes out there, wrecks or otherwise??)

Hurray for Puffy Paws! I have a bunch of cast-off critters myself; a blind, amazingly old silky terrier mix, a fat but sweet cocker, a deaf long-haired girl kitty (sweeetest cat EVAR) and on and on, to a total of eight.

Seriously? How hard is it to make a candy cane out of cupcakes? I would think that shape would be right up the CCC alley, but no! And I agree with the others who've said that stocking CCC was just sooo close. I think the snowman's "toes" were my favorite wreck. I almost didn't see the double hat wreckiness because I was too busy trying to figure out those toes!Andrea

OH Jen, what a wonderful idea you have had. I love that you are combining two of my favorite things, wrecky cakes and great charities. I wish that I had the ability to donate, but as an unemployed mother we don't have the money at this time. I am keeping track of all the charities and as soon as I am back to work I am donating my dollar (or more) to each. Keep up the fabulous work

You found my soft spot, Jen; and donation was actually easy since I already had a Paypal account. Thanks for linking to a place that helps the kitties...I have two spoiled rotten ones and would have a few more if my living arrangements allowed for it. (I'm not like those crazy people you see on those Animal Planet shows however...I'd never have more than I could spoil!)

I'm a little late to post about a charity, but I think it is a cause that is SO worthwhile! We raise money for the March of Dimes every year. Last year my family was the ambassador family for the state of Delaware. Our family team was able to raise almost $10,000 for this amazing charity that helps to save premature babies everyday. Please consider donating to the March of Dimes! I'd specifically love it if you would donate to the Delaware chapter because we are in desperate need of funding. We recently lost 3 large corporations in our state that were huge supporters of the March of Dimes. This is going to play a large impact on our fundraising this year.

Please feel free to look at my website to read about our story of premature triplets!

I especially like Frosty the Snow Octopus...at least that's what it looked like to me...lol!I plan on donating on Friday when I get paid, it looks wonderful! Yay kitties!

I took a tour of the site and it does need some re-vamping. I wish I knew enough to help out with the site. Ideas for graphics, site map and layout? Yes. Actual implementation of HTML and CSS? Not yet :(

*sniff* Ok, these wrecks crack me up, but watching that video on the Puffy Paws site made me bawl! I just donated (paypal link seems to be working now), and wanted to say thanks so much Jen and John for bringing the Kingstons and their rescue kitties to the attention of the Cake Wrecks audience! Cake Wrecks Rocks!

Coming in late here, but I second Vickie's mention of feedingpetsofthehomeless.com. When you're homeless and have a pet, a dog especially, you can't get into any shelter, not even the emergency winter ones. Some might say the homeless person should just give up the dog, but for many of us, our dogs and cats are *our* children, and no one would suggest a homeless man or woman give up his/her children. You lose so much when you become homeless, including large portions of your sense of humanity; having your dog or cat or bird with you at least keeps you tethered to the world and provides not only much-needed warmth and love, but something much rarer in the world of the homeless: hope. I know it's not an official one, but if anyone looking to catch up wants to add a 15th day of Cake Wrecks Giving, please consider helping a homeless man or woman provide for his/her pet. Short of providing a means of obtaining and retaining permanent shelter, nothing could mean more.

To go along with this theme, I adopted my handsome little guy from Fur the Love of Paws in Owings Mills, MD. They can always use donations and support... they have so many kitties in their foster homes who need loving!

Just want to make sure you that Cake Wrecks will be credited for our donation to Puffy Paws. We just donated $10 a month for the next year. As proud parents of 3 rescued cats (Charlie, Toula, and Lucy), we are happy to give a little to remind us of how lucky we are to have our kitties and vice versa!

Can I thank you profusely for setting up the First Giving? I detest Paypal and do not have and account. I was very glad to give Puffy Paws my moola. It was not much cos I'm poor but I lurve kittehs verry much.

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